A New Helping Hand...
I had a really good feeling coming into 2024. I had grand plans and everything!
And while the year has been great so far, I'm already behind on the roadmap and there are only four months left in the year. 😅
A few weeks ago, Rob asked what major issues I'd regret not resolving before next year and if we should get extra help to prevent that outcome. It pained me to think of entering 2025 without addressing the long-running performance and user experience problems we have or without upgrading our user interface.
And so the idea of bringing on a remote, flexible, short-term designer became rather appealing...
And a couple days after that discussion, we got an email from somebody.
Now, we're always getting emails from people who want to work with us, but we're never looking for extra help, so the timing of this email was particularly opportune. But, on top of that, there was something that I really appreciated about the designs they'd sent: they hadn't completely re-invented the wheel. They had taken what we already had and enhanced it, with a focus on the common UX pain points they'd gathered from their own research.
So, we decided to give this person a little (paid) trial. Something that was focused, refined in scope, and not too complex or forward-facing, but would still provide value to our users.
I settled on the task of a redesign of the classic prompt-style reading challenge page:
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